I have intermittently been reading Baudelaire's "Paris Spleen."
I came across the poem "The Thyrsus" and was struck by the taoist feel of the poem...once I looked up all the words ;-).
It seems to address the yin and the yang of life using a thyrsus as a metaphor. This feeling is brought home by lines such as "Straight line and arabesque, intention ( Read more... )